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Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics have announced a new advance in gallium nitride transistors that could help make the light-emitting diode (LED) the commercial light source of the future.

Phosphorus is a mineral that's widely used in fertilizer, which itself has an unfortunate tendency to leach out of farmers' fields and into our waterways. Now, researchers have devised a method of retrieving some of that phosphorus from the water.

Insulating your home may help the environment by lowering your energy usage, but unfortunately the petroleum-based foam that's typically used <em>as</em> insulation isn't all that eco-friendly itself. Researchers in Germany, however, have developed a greener alternative – it's foam made from wood.

For seniors in general, falls can result result in serious injuries. For seniors living alone, however, there's also a good chance that they could end up lying on the floor for up to several hours. That's why a group of German companies are developing the automatic safe@home system.

A new smartphone app and add-on hardware component could provide an alternative to costly avalanche tranceivers that is not only cheaper than dedicated devices, but also provides additional functionality.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS recently paired its fitness monitoring shirt with a smart pedelec bike. The system allows performance data measured from the shirt to control the output of the bike's electric motor.

When emergency response crews have to deal with many casualties at once, one of the first things they do is set up a triage system. It's a system that works, but the BRIDGE project is trying to make it better, with its eTriage technology.

A team of researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics FKIE has demonstrated a malware prototype with the ability to jump the "air gap" – meaning that even disconnecting your computer from networks may not be enough to ensure its protection.

The Factory-in-a-Day project aims to give European manufacturing a competitive edge by developing robots that can be integrated into small and medium enterprise (SME) factories within 24 hours, resulting in optimized production and reduced labor costs.